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* [PATCH] Faster MMU lookups for Book3s
@ 2010-06-25 23:16 Alexander Graf
  2010-06-25 23:16 ` [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Add generic hpte management functions Alexander Graf
  2010-06-25 23:16 ` [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Make use of hash based Shadow MMU Alexander Graf
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Graf @ 2010-06-25 23:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm-ppc; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, KVM list

Book3s suffered from my really bad shadow MMU implementation so far. So
I finally got around to implement a combined hash and list mechanism that
allows for much faster lookup of mapped pages.

To show that it really is faster, I tried to run simple process spawning
code inside the guest with and without these patches:

[without]

debian-powerpc:~# time for i in {1..1000}; do /bin/echo hello > /dev/null; done

real    0m20.235s
user    0m10.418s
sys     0m9.766s

[with]

debian-powerpc:~# time for i in {1..1000}; do /bin/echo hello > /dev/null; done

real    0m14.659s
user    0m8.967s
sys     0m5.688s

So as you can see, performance improved significantly.

Alexander Graf (2):
  KVM: PPC: Add generic hpte management functions
  KVM: PPC: Make use of hash based Shadow MMU

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s.h |    7 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h   |   18 ++-
 arch/powerpc/kvm/Makefile             |    2 +
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.c |  104 ++-----------
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_host.c |   98 +-----------
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_mmu_hpte.c    |  286 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 327 insertions(+), 188 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_mmu_hpte.c

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2010-06-25 23:18   ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-28  8:28   ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-28  8:55     ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-28  9:12       ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-28  9:27         ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-28  9:34           ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-28  9:55             ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-28 10:01               ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-28 13:25                 ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-28 13:30                   ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-28 13:32                     ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-29 12:56         ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-29 13:05           ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-29 13:06             ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-29 13:13               ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-25 23:16 ` [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Make use of hash based Shadow MMU Alexander Graf

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